Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this post are fictional. Any resemblance with any person living or dead is purely coincidental. This is a sad attempt by two jobless people. Names will not be disclosed for security reasons.

Friday, January 26, 2007

Location:Richa's bedNamoone: Pink, Devi, MTThe room is filled with notes, bits of paper scattered all over... bits of what has been said in class written on the edges of the freshly touched paper...Scene #1 ( never mind the act, we are always in nautanki mode)Time: 12:00 am

MT: nazism in germany blah blah blah...Pink: whats a concentration camp?MT: Jews, gas, naked, 6 million exterminatedPink: (Eyes wide open almost touching the floor) Shit! how could he?Devi: Thats what happened. But why are we talking abt Hitler now?

MT: you should read Diary of Anne Frank...Devi:yes yes. I want a copy of that one. By the way, have you finished UAE?Pink: Mujhe to neend aa rahi hai yaar, chaar baje uthke padhai karein?MT, Devi: (mumble, like thats gonna happen) Nahi..

Scene #2Time: 12:45Namoone talk abt the status of women in UAE and the flexi time facilities that they get, maternity leave and the fact that the country is prosperous because of its natural wealth...Read read and read. Mutual agreement to close UAE and get on with the family life in USA...

Pink: kya bakwaas hai? Divorce rates are so high, there is more remarriage than marriage.MT: Yeah. The basis of their relationship is love you see, and they dont need consent of their parents or relatives to get into matrimony...Devi: Single parent is the order of the day. The kids there are 4 times more detached from both their parents than in India...Pink: (Reads ) Children move out at the age of 18, till then they are supported by their parents..hey thats why they are so independent...MT: and also stressed out...Devi: Yaar tumne modernization kiya?MT: Kuch bhi nahi kiya. Kal bhi vaat lagegi sabki...I think we should just do traits of a modern person...

MT: I think both India and Pak are to blame, India is too proud of hinduism as a way of life- brahmin blah blah, Pak wants all muslim majority areas, we give kashmir they ask for assam, we give Assam, they will ask for hyderabad...Completion of pakistan is a farce, its not possible...But I feel, the reason why the firangs came here was primarily because of the wealth we had, spices etc included... We were too engulfed in vanity, that we lost track of what was happening around the world...apne pair pe kulhadi marna types...Pink: (sleep does the vanishing act) No. I dont agree. The state of muslims in Pakistan is much worse than that of Indian muslims....MT:hmm..to yahan pe vo kaunse aabad hai?Pink: Yawn...so jaaye kya?

Scene # 4Time:2:15MT: Reads- A modern person should accept change, should have traits of self-efficacy, yawn...Pink:dekha!MT: Sets alarm. Nahi uthungi main..I know..Pink:Main hoon na..don worry I will wake you up...Pukka

Scene # 5Time: 2:30Pink runs off like a small kid who has just finished her homework..while MT ponders....

The problem is not with their existance, it is with infringment. I have butcherd many, beaten them to pulp. Literally took the life outta them, but they refuse to leave. They have taken a liking to the vicinity that I understand as mine.

The other day, a couple of cockroaches trespassed into the media lab, I mean what guts! Entering the very same area that the rest of the world detests....Ree screams at the top of her lungs, 'Yuck!' mumm mumm mumm... thats how she blabbers at times..."Sadie cockroach!" I was like, what?! I was stick insect first and now Iam cockroach, as I rehearsed which gaali to use, she exclaimed, "cockroach hai yahan pe!!"

Then began the hunt. I got ready for the kill.

Step one: Search for chappal, bathroom slippers nahi chalega...Proper chappals so that the insides of the insect do not spoil the newly acquired 100 buck footwear. It is always good to carry your weapon...cos some of them fly, cockroaches I mean..Sadly no one has invented a weapon to kill them, HIT kills you more than the cockroach and then you feel you might as well let it live...

Step two: Brooms are of good use, to beat anyone for that matter..But this step is to first search for the 'roach (cocky doesn sound good so...) every possible place, under the table, behind curtains..they love corners but are very restless, keep running back and forth, run behind them.If they go into those godforsaken nooks and corners, follow them. Remember, that thing is your aim. Its hit and win!

Step five: look for accomplices...they never attack alone..If you find some more...repeat step 1 to 5..

Step six: throw the crap in the dustbin, use paper....give it a 'whatever' look

Step seven: Let the victory sink in, rejoice! ;)

Well, now that I have provided you with a comprehensive guide 'to kill a mocking cockroach', I hope my services would not be required anymore, right Ms Ree?You did a pretty good job in the morning, I heard...

I hope next time "Cockroach!! Where is Sadie??" will not be uttered in the same breath....